The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1887-08-31
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 81, 1887.

-Hunterdon County Fair, at Fleming
ton, Sept. 9th, 2Sth, Goth and 3Olh.
The Baptist Sunday School of ,hi,
city will go on picnic to Eyes grove, to.
morrow Thursday.
There were %, 7s9 baskets of peaches
shipped from White House Station dur.
ing last week.
Mr.. Jacob Calkhuff, Of Rcadington
township, had cow killed in the field by
lightning on Wednesday
The Frenchiown Cornet Band have
decided to hold their proposed musical
entertainment to morrow Thursday, on
George Hays lot.
Mr.. A. w. Smith has dahlia fifteen
feet high in his garden No. Church
street, this city. 1t is now in bloom at
the top and bears number of buds.
"A new road is now being opened in
Delaware township that will extend from
the Sandy Ridge road to the road tina,
extends from Brookvillc to Dilts' Corner.
There will be Peach Festival held
at the Pennington Baptist Church, on
Tuesday evening, Sept. 6, under the
auspices Of the Young Peoples Associa-
ton.
Three or four Of our citizens are as.
piring to get in the line of Democratic
promotion to the Presidency. In other
words they want to be Sheriff, May they
all get the nomination
On Wednesday of week before last,
Jesse Pegg, of Head Quarters, found one
Of his cows dead in the pasture field. 1t
is supposed that she was killed by light
ming.
MIR and Mrs. Lambert Humphrey,
late Of The Union Hotel, returned to their
home in bennington on Monday evening
last, after an absence of several months in
California.
The repairs to the Baptist Church at
Ringoes, add much to its appearance and
comfort. A new ceiling, papered and
painted, were long felt needs to the house
of worship.
The New Hope Cornet Band, by in
z:.sation, gave an outdoor concert at
DoyIestown last Wednesday evening -
Several hundred people were present and
were highly pleased with the music.
Dogs made raid into tho sheep pas
ture of Mr. Joseph Hill, Of tho Reaville
vicinity, one night last week, killing and
manning well ON toward three hundred
dollars worth of sheep.
Dogs got among the sheep of Mr..
Jonathan Hoppock, at Dilts Corner, Del
aware township, one night last week,
killing nineteen out of the twenty-three
shat composed the flock.
lightning struck barrack on the
farm of Mr. George Daley, near tho vii
lage of Readington, last Wednesday noon,
burning it together with the summers
crop of oats that it contained
John H.. DeMott, Esq, of Fleming
ton, who has been clerk in the New
: York Custom House for the year past,
was last week advanced to the position of
Assistant Weigher. An advance of sala-
ny goes with the position.
During the severe shower last We'd
neslay noon, the house of MIR. William
Conoyer, near Pennington, was struck by
bnt not set on fire. Some win
dow lights were demolished, and the cell
ing Of one room was torn off
MIR. John II. Thompson, Of Pleasant
Nau. lost his third horse from cerebro
spinal meningitis, last week. Thomas
Bishop, of Dreahook, and Mr.. Daggett,
of Mechanicsyille, also each lost one last
week from the same cause.
MIR. Jacob Servis, of this city, informs
us that he called to see Sylvia Dubois.
the well-known coored cetenarian who
lives ON Sourland Mountain, in this coun-
ty. Sylvia is now in her one hundred and
twentieth year, and Mr.. S. says she looks
asahough she might live ten years longer.
MIR. Albert Duryea, the enterprising
peanut man of this city, brought to our
Office yesterday sample lot of yard
beans, grown in his front yard No. So
Main street, the pods of which measured
"a inches in length. He has number of
seeds Of this excellent bean, which he is
willing to dispose Of
TIE Prohibitionists of IIunterdou
held Convention at the Court Horse in
bennington, last Saturday. and nomina-
aed full county ticket ns follows: For
Sheriff, Gershom Lambert, OF Lambert
vile; for Assembly, First District, Jas.
G.. Ewing, Of Raritan township; Second
District, George Fleming. OF Bethlehem
township.
w. G. Parker, attorney -at.law, is
about to leave Pennington for Kansas
City, Mo-, with the intention Of locating
there. We hope 10 hear of his doing
well. Rumor has it that ]. Newton
Voorhees, also intends to leave Fleming
ton and settle at Newark, N. j., for the
practice OF his profession. = Hunterdon
Democrat.
The comrades of Post 90, c. A. r.,
are making preparations for their second
annual snapper soup and clam chowder,
which will como off on the 10th Of Sep
SENDER, on HE city lot Comrade Amos